Watching The X-Files a 15 y/o for the first time…
Okay so by the title you’re probably wondering why I’m kinda sounding like a line that the cigarette smoking man would deliver but I wanted to tell you guys my honest experience about a new gen person watching X files for the first time. So the reason I started watching the X files was because I was talking with my dad a few months ago about what his favorite thing he’s worked on was. ( He’s a producer/writer ) And he told me that it was The X files film, X-Files: Fight the future. And then he started giving me the premise of the show and instantly I was intrigued and interested. So we watched the pilot and it was way better than I ever would’ve thought! It had everything I’d looked for in a show for a while. The characters, The plot, The ending with a mysterious cigarette smoking man walking through a narrow corridor, it was all just so perfect! Now long story short, that was 3 months ago and now i am almost done with season 5 and have read three other pieces of X files media, and all I can say is, It has NOT lost its touch at all! A problem I have had with previous buddy cop type shows was that they always focus too much on one character but with the X files it’s so perfectly distributed between Mulder and Scully! An example would be Mulder learning that Samantha is alive and then Scully learning she has a daughter?! It’s all sooo good and I hope I enjoy the rest of it! (I heard that after season 7, it’s kinda downhill from there so fingers crossed it doesn’t lose its spark) but would love to hear any advice from you guys on anything I should do/watch/read about the X files.
(For context, I read X-files Origins: Agent of Chaos, X-files: Year Zero and the X-files season/episode guides for seasons 1-4)